Ending a relationship/marriage doesn’t necessarily imply that you no longer love someone (I haven’t been married but I do still love several of my ex-partners), it just implies that the arrangement didn’t work out for one reason or another.
Unless you also think the United States is an outlier in terms of spouses who don’t unconditionally love each other, I guess you have to endorse something like Kaj_Sotala’s point that divorce isn’t always the same as ending love though, right?
How do you square this with ~50% of marriages ending in divorce?
Ending a relationship/marriage doesn’t necessarily imply that you no longer love someone (I haven’t been married but I do still love several of my ex-partners), it just implies that the arrangement didn’t work out for one reason or another.
The United States is an outlier in divorce statistics. In most places, the rate is nowhere near that high.
Unless you also think the United States is an outlier in terms of spouses who don’t unconditionally love each other, I guess you have to endorse something like Kaj_Sotala’s point that divorce isn’t always the same as ending love though, right?